The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Monday in a case with major implications for how water from the drought-stricken Colorado River is shared and how the U.S. government honors obligations to Native American tribes.
The water fight stems from the U.S. government and the Navajo Nation's more than 150-year-old treaties that reserved the tribe a"permanent home," a vow the tribe says includes a vast water supply. Now, the tribe says that promise has been broken and that its people are suffering as a consequence of that severed deal.In the wake of the drought, nearly a third of residents in the tribe's Western U.S.
The Biden administration argues in a brief that under Supreme Court precedent, the United States can only be brought to court by the tribe when it has a so-called expressly accepted responsibility, such as a relevant law or regulation it has enacted. The tribe cited the Supreme Court's 2020 decision in McGirt v. Oklahoma, which found that tribes maintained much jurisdiction over federal crimes committed on their lands in the state.
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